Short Attention Span Cinema: Oneminutesjr.

Friday, September 20 - Thursday, November 28, 2013

We’re pleased to present a selection of work from UNICEF’s “OneMinutesJr.” program as part of our ongoing “Short Attention Span Cinema” series. Featuring shorts made by youth from Vietnam, Libya, Pakistan, Mexico, India and the USA, the 60-second films will play before our regular features.

An international, arts-based initiative, OneMinutesJr. gives 12-20 year-old youth, especially those who are underprivileged or marginalized, the opportunity to have their voices heard and to share their ideas, dreams, fascinations, anxieties and viewpoints by making films. The program conducts 5-day workshops with video artists teaching basic camera and directing skills, storytelling, teamwork and how to think creatively about issues and representation. Each participant develops his/her own story based on the workshop theme and produces a sixty-second video that is screened at the conclusion of the workshop.

The project, a partnership of UNICEF and the One Minutes Foundation, has reached more than 3150 youngsters from 97 countries since its inception. For more information on the OneMinutesJr. project, visit www.theoneminutesjr.org.

A big congratulations to the four films we’re playing that took home major prizes from the New York Film Critics Circle: THE BABADOOK for Best First Film, CITIZENFOUR for Best Nonfiction Film, TWO DAYS, ONE NIGHT (opening Dec 24, advance tickets now on sal …

While the MPAA has assigned CITIZENFOUR and BOYHOOD ratings of R, recommending that no one under 17 be admitted without a parent or guardian, IFC Center feels that both films are appropriate viewing for mature adolescents. Accordingly, the theater will adm …